Category Archives: census

Announcing Weekly US Census Data Visualizations

Posted on January 16, 2013 by glenn

I’m a HUGE fan of data visualizations and I’m always glad to see when awesome companies are working hard to create beautiful, meaningful data visualisations to generate a buzz or tell a story – case in point, just check out … Continue reading →

Posted in cartography, census, howto, map |

U.S. Census Return Rate Challenge: $25,000 in prize money

Posted on October 1, 2012 by glenn

Here’s a challenge for you statistical  gurus from the US Census Bureau. The challenge is to create a statistical model to predict the 2010 Census mail return rate of small area geographic units based on their demographic characteristics. The Census … Continue reading →

Posted in census, developer |

The Urbanization of America – People Flocking to Cities to work and live

Posted on September 27, 2012 by glenn

The findings are in and people seem to want to live and work in the city center. With the official release of the 2010 US Census data there’s some interesting facts and figures floating around. For example, more than 10% … Continue reading →

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Map of Interstate and Cross-Border 2011 Migration Patterns

Posted on January 3, 2012 by gisuser

A fabulous graphic has been made available from Atlas Van Lines. What better resource to get migration patterns and data than the moving company? And so, enter this graphic from Atlas showing in/out migration from various regions. The map shows … Continue reading →

Posted in business, census |

Census Bureau USA Jan 1, 2012 Population Estimates

Posted on January 3, 2012 by glenn

This year, like most other years, the US Census Bureau released some year-end population stats including an estimate of the population as of the turn of the calendar page. Some of the findings reported by the Bureau include: The US … Continue reading →

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Stats Canada to Make Data Products Free and Open

Posted on November 26, 2011 by glenn

This past week loads of the OpenGov vocalists were all abuzz when it was revealed that finally, after all these years, Stats Canada is emerging from the dark ages and will be making data freely available to the public – … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, census |

2010 US Census Bureau Data Product Tips

Posted on July 3, 2011 by glenn

Looking for US Census data? The Census.gov resource now has a number of data products available including demographic profile data and population profile maps. These profiles provide details about race and Hispanic groups, age, sex and housing status. The profiles … Continue reading →

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Census Bureau Releases 2010 Population Estimates

Posted on December 6, 2010 by glenn

Just in time for the new year, the US Census Bureau has started releasing data from the 2010 US Census of the population. These figures provide national-level estimates of the population by age, sex, two race groups � black and … Continue reading →

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2009 TIGER/Line SHP files from Census Bureau

Posted on October 5, 2009 by glenn

Looks like the US Census Bureau has just updated their data holdings and is making available the 2009 TIGER/Line files in SHP format via FTP download. The data include spatial data for geographic features such as roads, railroads, rivers, and … Continue reading →

Posted in census, free gis data |

Datamap Intelligence housing market snapshots

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Glenn

An interesting new data product for the real estate professional… Datamap Intelligence has created a unique application that creates customized comprehensive snapshots of the entire new housing market across the United States. The application is powered by an extensive dataset … Continue reading →

Posted in census, real estate |

Grab the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles from the Census Bureau

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Glenn

A tip if you like free stuff… I see that some of the “free” data websites are now flogging the free 2007 TIGER/Line files (SHP format) – I saw one site whoring out the data for $100+ bucks! OR…. you … Continue reading →

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How many Hispanics in America? How about 45+ million

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Glenn

In an official Census Bureau PR release, the nation’s Hispanic population increased 1.4 million to reach 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 301.6 million. Of note, Hispanics remained the largest … Continue reading →

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